Double chain hook



: June 3, 1941.

H. E. RAWLINS 2,244,572

DOUBLE CHAIN HOOK Filed Nov. 27 1939 IN V EN TOR.

ATTORNEYS.

Patented June 3, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention aims to provide a novel 8 member, so constructed that it will have great strength, and be peculiarly useful in connectin chains together in a variety of ways.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a top plan showing a hook constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the hook;

Fig. 3 is a cross section of the hook;

Fig. 4 is a plan view showing one of the many ways in which the invention may be used.

The hook embodied in the present invention is madeof strong metal and comprises a body I, provided at its ends with oppositely projecting bills 2. The outer longitudinal edges 3 of the body I are straight, parallel to each other, and parallel to the inner edges 4' of the bills 2, throughout the major portions of the lengths of said inner edges. In other words the bills are positioned at 180 to the body.

The terminal portions 5 of the inner edges 4 of the bills 2 are outwardly inclined, to form widened entering throats 6. Title external end edges 1 of the bills 2 are outwardly curved, the outer lateral edges 9 of the bills being outwardly curved and inwardly inclined toward the inner edges 4 of the bills.

The outer edges 9 of the bills 2 are inwardly concaved, as shown at Ill, to form reduced, round-ended tips H for the bills. The body I and the bills 2 are made of approximately rectangular stock, one of the diagonals l2 of which is located in the median plane 14-14 of the body I and of the bills 2.

In order to show a few of the uses to which the hook forming the subject matter of this application may be put, the drawing illustrates chains 15, each comprising first links 25, and a second link 26 connecting the first links, the second links 26 being O-shaped and including opposed side portions, the second links being disposed in parallel relation, and an S-member comprising oppositely-opening hooks, each hook being detachably engaged with both side portions of the second link 26 of one chain, and being closely received between the first links 25 of t that chain. The foregoing description reads on a structure wherein a lateral chain It may be connected to one of the chains IS.

The specific construction of the hook, as hereinbefore and hereinafter set forth adapts it peculiarly for use as a chain connector. Easy assembly is brought about, and the hook has great strength to Withstand the strains which are imposed upon it.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

In a hook for connecting chains and the like, a body provided at its ends with oppositelyprojecting bills, the bills and. the body being fashioned from approximately rectangular stock, one of the diagonals of the stock being disposed in the median plane of the bills and the body, the outer longitudinal edges of the body being parallel and straight, the inner edges of the bills being parallel, throughout the major portions of their lengths, to the. outer longitudinal edges of the body; the outer lateral edges of the bills being inwardly inclined toward the inner edges of the bills and being outwardly curved, the outer edges of the bills being inwardly concaved, to formreduced roundended tips for the bills, the bills being located at to the body, the terminal portions of the inner edges of the bills being outwardly inclined to fashion widened entering throats, the external end edges of the bills being outwardly curved.

HORACE EDMUND RAWLINS. 

